[Kroupware] create user fails

[Martin Konold]

Am Sonntag, 27. Juli 2003 13:20 schrieb Bernhard Erdmann:

Hi Bernhard,

> when trying to create a new user on my new kolab server, it misses a
> field "Unique UserID" as shown on
> http://kolab.kde.org/administration-1.0-html/c44.html .

With 1.0 we changed the policy to make the email address the uid. After all 
every valid email address is globally unique already.

> After I had filled in the required fields (see
> http://berdmann.dyndns.org/debug/kolab/kolab-create-user.gif ), it
> jumped immediately to the "Modify Existing User"-page (see
> http://berdmann.dyndns.org/debug/kolab/kolab-modify-user.gif ).

Yes, this is fine. Everything looks ok to me.

> Though this new user is shown on the "Manage Email Users" page (see
> http://berdmann.dyndns.org/debug/kolab/kolab-manage-email-users.gif ),

The user is indeed created in the LDAP repository. (This page does read from 
LDAP before displaying)
 
> it does not appear in the address book (see
> http://berdmann.dyndns.org/debug/kolab/kolab-manage-address-book.gif )

This gif does not show the address book but the Kolab user list. After all the 
address book is meant for _non_ Kolab Users. Basically this addressbook is 
usable for storage and central maintainance of external addresses. 

Please have a look at 
http://www.erfrakon.de/projects/kolab/documentation/administration/c24.html

> and I can't find a Cyrus mailbox for it in /kolab/var/imapd/user/?.

Something is wrong with your kolab setup! 

Did you run the bootstrap script as documented in the QIM?
Did you start kolab correctly?
Is your startup script in /etc/init.d/kolab correct?
Are you 100% sure that you installed the correct rpms? Please compare with the 
list on www.erfrakon.de

Yours,
-- martin

Dipl.-Phys. Martin Konold
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Erlewein, Frank, Konold & Partner - Beratende Ingenieure und Physiker
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email: martin.konold at erfrakon.de